• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Southern FATTY

Loosen your bow tie, mint your julep, & stop in for a bite to eat.

  • Home
  • About
    • About
    • Press
    • Contact
  • Travel
    • Nashville
    • Beyond
  • Recipes
    • ALL RECIPES
    • Appetizers & Snacks
    • Beverages
    • Condiments / Dips / Sauces
    • Confections / Sweets
    • Mains / Entrées >>
      • Beef
      • Chicken
      • Pasta
      • Pork
      • Seafood
      • Vegetable
    • Sides / Appetizers
  • Photography
  • Subscribe

2015 Music City Food + Wine – DAY 1

October 2, 2015 By Phillip @ SouthernFATTY.com 4 Comments

Martin's BBQ at Music City Food & Wine

Porter Road Butcher at Music City Food Wine

Food and Wine festivals across the nation are becoming more and more popular. Music City is no exception to that trend, and I’m thrilled about it. This year, Nashville was home to one of the tastiest, booziest, party-like festivals to top all festivals–

2015 Music City Food + Wine. If you are a Nashville local or planning a trip to see our Southern charms, this festival features some favorites that you definitely want to taste.

Continue reading for more eye-candy!

I’m not going to spend a bunch of time writing about everything here. I really think that this experience is best described through pictures. TONS and tons of pictures.

Seriously…

DAY 1

Music City Food + Wine

Welcome! — The event was held in the beautiful downtown Bicentennial Mall State Park.

Miraval at Music City Food & Wine

The first day of the 2-day MCFW festival had more drinks than you could imagine. By far more booze than food. No complaints here.

City House (Nashville) at Music City Food & Wine

City House (Nashville) had these tiny toasted pavlovas topped with ricotta cream, lemon marmalade and poppyseed crumb.

The acrobatic chickens that you see at the beginning of the post were courtesy of Nashville-famous Martin’s BBQ. They even had Chef’s from other spots cooking up some octopus over the coals. It’s basically one big family here, y’all.

Pinewood Social Mousse Curd at Music City Food & Wine

Pinewood Social (which is an amazingly fun spot to eat or drink at here in Music City) killed it with these lemon curd, pretzel crumb-topped, lavender gremolata and fresh blueberry treats. Seriously. I could eat this instead of breakfast every morning, right?

KitchenAid at Music City Food + Wine

Kitchen-Aid didn’t disappoint, stocking every single cooking demo tent on the grounds and providing plenty of eye candy for attendees. I mean… seriously. LOOK at those. I’d take every single one of those home with me if they would have fit in my bag. (PS- Thanks for the cute tote with the cookie inside, Christie Cookies!)

Barritt's Ginger Beer at Music City Food & Wine

Y’all know how I feel about GINGER BEER. (Which if you remember our previous GB posts, isn’t actually typical beer at all…)

Barritt’s was on location to mix their GB with just about any additional booze that you could think of. Not a single one disappointed.

Goo Goo Clusters at Music City Food Wine

Goo Goo Clusters at Music City Food Wine

Anyone that knows Nashville, knows that it isn’t really Nashville without Goo Goo Clusters. The lovely Chocolatier of Goo Goo’s own downtown sweets shop, Lauren, was there to serve up the Goo Goo Premiums. These are special clusters that are made for the 3rd Avenue shop. Definitely a place to stop when you are browsing around the Broadway bars in town.

South Walton, Florida at Music City Food Wine

Music City Food Wine

South Walton, Florida reps and Chefs were in the house to make everyone jealous that they weren’t on the beach with a virtual simulator and delicious seafood bites. (PS- It worked.)

Also on site– Southern-repestented pork sliders. I may have had like…. 8 of these.

Sinema at Music City Food Wine

Melrose district’s Sinema was sporting these insanely delicious lamb ricotta agnolotti bites. [Busty-background™ provided by Amanda.]

The tasting portion of the day ended with a massive dance party in the center of the park. It started as a simple social gathering and ended like a middle school dance gone wrong. Since this is mostly a family-friendly blog, I’ll save those photos for our Instagram. You’re gonna want to check those out….

Day 1 – Evening (Harvest Night)

I left feeling insanely full, sleepy, hyper, exhausted and did I say full? A quick nap before I was off to the evening festivities. Little did I know how. much. fun. I would have that night.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Harvest Night is the name of the Day 1 evening concert & Celebrity Chef tasting event during MCFW. All of the fancy Chefs come and cook for everyone, passing out and greeting people like one big ol’ Southern-style family reunion. It’s a great way to chat with some familiar faces while enjoying insanely good music.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Andrew Zimmern was quite literally walking around with a tray of his…umm..  weiners. A hot dog may not sound like your idea of top-notch food, but this one was insanely good. Quite possibly my favorite dish of the night.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Once you have your plate full of food and drinks (yes, plural), you can head over to the concert stage. This was where I was just in my own little world. Honestly, I hadn’t planned on enjoying this part of the evening as much as I did. I’m not much of a concert goer. I blame my Mom forcing me to go to Amy Grant concerts when I was young.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Food + Wine didn’t disappoint with the lineup for this 3-hour long concert. You can find the entire lineup HERE. My favorite part of the evening was the selection of songs that the artists performed. This wasn’t a night of pop and this and that. It was packed full of energy and souuuuuuul. Older, gut-tingling classic were reborn through new and old artists alike.

Sam Moore at Music City Food Wine

Sam Moore at Music City Food Wine

Just take a minute and look at this one. Do y’all know who this is?! The “World Famous” shirt is totally appropriate. This is Sam Moore himself. Soooooul Man! Phenomenal to see him up close. It didn’t hurt that I had fantastic food (that wasn’t your typical concession stand junk at a concert) and a homemade cocktail in hand at the same time.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

As if that wasn’t enough, the one and only Jewel came out to sing a few tunes. Yes. THAT Jewel. Although I was pretty depressed that she didn’t sing Intuition, it was still pretty great.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Carla Hall at Music City Food Wine

The night ended with all of the performs getting together on stage to sing the final number. You can even spot Nashville’s own Carla Hall and Andrew Zimmer at the mics. Everyone left with tons of energy, full stomachs and most likely tons of new friends.

Carla Hall at Music City Food Wine

Day 1 of the Music City Food + Wine Festival was over (at 1am, needless to say…). I headed home for a much nap before the next day. If there is one thing you can be certain about, it’s that Nashville doesn’t disappoint. Ever. Something for everyone, and it just happened that this event pulls it all together into one amazing weekend.

Music City Food Wine Harvest Night Concert

Be sure to subscribe to our e-mail updates to get notified when the Day 2 round-up is posted!

Filed Under: Experience, Nashville Tagged With: Andrew Zimmern, BBQ, Carla Hall, celebrity chefs, concert, festival, Food + Wine, GooGoo Clusters, Jewel, KitchenAid, music, Nashville, restaurant, Sam Moore

Previous Post: « Sriracha Baked Avocado Fries
Next Post: Brown Butter Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies »

Reader Interactions

Comments

    Leave a Reply Cancel reply

    Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

  1. CamelsAndChocolate

    October 24, 2015 at 8:13 pm

    Dibs on teaming up with you for MCFW 2016! The good news is that I only have one sister so no one can make me go to a wedding instead of day 1 come next September 😉

    Reply
    • Phillip @ SouthernFATTY.com

      October 24, 2015 at 8:55 pm

      Day 1 was where it was at!

      Reply
  2. Brandon @ Kitchen Konfidence

    October 2, 2015 at 6:40 pm

    1. Those Goo Goo Premiums look ridiculously tasty 2. The first photo is very 50 shades of poultry 3. I’m now craving hot dogs. Or pork sliders. Or both.

    Reply
    • Phillip @ SouthernFATTY.com

      October 3, 2015 at 9:42 am

      They are sooooo good! I’ll mail you one. With a hot dog.

      Reply

Primary Sidebar

Follow Us!

  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Pinterest
  • RSS
  • Twitter

Footer

Southern FATTY is a Nashville, TN based food blog with everything delicious.

Loosen your bow tie, mint your julep & stop in for a bite to eat. Read More…

SUBSCRIBE

© 2012-2022 Southern FATTY Media, LLC
 · by Phillip Fryman · Privacy / Terms & Conditions · Contact Us · ALL RIGHTS RESERVED



 

Loading Comments...
 

    Previous Sriracha Baked Avocado Fries Sriracha Baked Avocado Fries
    Next Brown Butter Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies Brown Butter Pumpkin Oatmeal Cookies